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The Third Story Podcast with Leo Sidran

Leo Sidran

THE THIRD STORY features long-form interviews with creative people of all types, hosted by musician Leo Sidran. Their stories of discovery, loss, ambition, identity, risk, and reward are dee...

The Third Story Podcast with Leo Sidran Podcast Guide

Listen to The Third Story Podcast with Leo Sidran, a Music podcast by Leo Sidran. Stream 343 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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324: Heather Aimee O'Neill

Before The Irish Goodbye became one of the most acclaimed debut novels of 2025, Heather Aimee O'Neill spent years quietly writing it while b...

57:38Jun 19, 2026

323: Lakecia Benjamin

Saxophonist and bandleader Lakecia Benjamin has become one of the most dynamic voices in jazz today. Here she talks about hanging up on Clar...

01:12:35Jun 9, 2026

322: Miles Davis

Miles Davis spent his life searching. He changed the sound of jazz repeatedly, assembling generations of musicians around him and pushing co...

52:02May 26, 2026

321: Julieta Venegas

Mexican singer-songwriter Julieta Venegas on how growing up in Tijuana - a border city suspended between Mexico and the United States - deve...

53:26May 18, 2026

320: Dida Pelled

Dida Pelled on her latest album I Wish You Would , a blues-focused project recorded with Tony Scherr, Kenny Wollesen, and Sullivan Fortner....

01:13:31May 3, 2026

319: Emily Cavanagh's Song For You

Singer, songwriter, and founder of Song For You , Emily Cavanagh on music, service, resilience, and finding purpose in uncertain times. In t...

01:03:17Apr 21, 2026

318: Michael Leviton and The Tell

At his monthly series The Tell , writer and storyteller Michael Leviton brings together performers and audiences for an evening where nothin...

48:39Apr 14, 2026

317: Janis Siegel and The Scent of Danger

When singer Janis Siegel was invited to help produce a Women's History Month event at the United Nations, everything seemed aligned—until sh...

36:12Mar 28, 2026

316: Ben Sidran - Jazz and Modernism

When I arrived in Palm Springs last month, a few days before the concert-lecture I was to play with my father, Ben Sidran, I found him surro...

59:43Mar 11, 2026

315: Phoebe Katis

Phoebe Katis — a UK-born, New York–based songwriter can pinpoint the moment when her life and career were quietly reoriented. It started wit...

01:04:55Feb 6, 2026

314: Keren Ann

Keren Ann was born in Israel, spent her early years in the Netherlands, and later moved to France. The daughter of a Russian-Jewish father a...

01:13:08Jan 23, 2026

313: Dan Pashman

Dan Pashman is one of those increasingly rare people who always wanted to be in radio. His career began at the turn of the millennium as a p...

01:04:18Jan 16, 2026

312: Kurt Elling Returns

Kurt Elling returns for a wide-ranging conversation about vocation, gratitude, and what it means to be in service of the music. Elling first...

01:17:49Jan 8, 2026

311: Cafe Central, Madrid

The Café Central, a jazz club located just off Madrid's Puerta del Sol — Spain's "Kilometer Zero" — has been going out of business for more...

41:39Dec 23, 2025

310: Remembering Phil Upchurch

Guitarist, bassist, composer Phil Upchurch died on November 23, and with his passing the music world lost one of its true "musician's musici...

37:04Dec 8, 2025

309: Madison Cunningham

Madison Cunningham's new album Ace marks a striking and vulnerable chapter in the young songwriter's evolution. Not yet 30, Cunningham has a...

52:29Nov 24, 2025

308: Theo Bleckmann

Singer and composer Theo Bleckmann has spent his career between categories - jazz and avant-garde, improvisation and composition, structure...

01:17:42Nov 10, 2025

307: dodie

British singer-songwriter dodie has spent half her life in public. Long before algorithms and engagement metrics ruled the day, she began po...

59:05Oct 27, 2025

306: Vera Brandes

The Köln Concert by Keith Jarrett is one of the most iconic recordings in jazz history — a completely improvised solo piano performance, rec...

01:01:37Oct 19, 2025

305: Jacob Jeffries

Pianist, songwriter, and performer Jacob Jeffries the morning after he played Madison Square Garden with Vulfpeck, reflecting on the surreal...

59:24Oct 10, 2025